I want a job - but cant afford childcare ;(

property.advert

When I had the time before going back to work I was making around £200 a month from surveys. It takes a couple of months to learn how to do them (i.e. you don't give them your real data but rather what they want to hear). A 27 year old female, married with a decent income, home and car owner and you get invited into all manner of surveys.

About half comes in real cash, sometimes up to 70%. The remainder in vouchers, of which I always chose Amazon as they are instant.

When you look at it that way, you would need a lot of income to come out a net £200 a month ahead.

redpete

property.advert wrote: »

When I had the time before going back to work I was making around £200 a month from surveys. It takes a couple of months to learn how to do them (i.e. you don't give them your real data but rather what they want to hear).

I'm not sure that making up answers to surveys (pretending to be someone she isn't) addresses the reason the OP is looking for a job...

Dont get me wrong i LOVE being with my Kids but i am beginning to lose who i am....

piratefairy

property.advert wrote: »

When I had the time before going back to work I was making around £200 a month from surveys. It takes a couple of months to learn how to do them (i.e. you don't give them your real data but rather what they want to hear). A 27 year old female, married with a decent income, home and car owner and you get invited into all manner of surveys.

About half comes in real cash, sometimes up to 70%. The remainder in vouchers, of which I always chose Amazon as they are instant.

When you look at it that way, you would need a lot of income to come out a net £200 a month ahead.

Finding it a little difficult to understand why you'd make up the answers?!

Spendless

If it's for you to 'be yourself' then does it have to be a job? What about looking at what courses you could do? Doesn't have to be academic since you say you have a good education, but something that interests you.

Got a children's centre in your area? Ask there, what they offer. Ours does/has done cookery classes, personal development, parenting, be a breast-feeding mentor as well as the literacy, numeracy ones. Ours has an on-site creche- nominal charge fo £1 per child plus £1 per week for the course.

victoriaplum1

I have found that when I type any p/t hours into the tax credit calculator the total I get takes at least 1.5k nosedive straight away, given that I can only go back if I have set days the choice is limited (I have looked at about 100 jobs, 1 fits but is min wage) so basically I would work 21 hours a week over 3 days for an extra £250-ish a month. Am not sure if that amount justifies upsetting the routine at home esp while baby is still only 16 months and my other son would need to go to after school club. Tax credits make it too easy in some ways to feel like you are best off at home because they heavily subsidise those on lower wages. When you do go back to work it can feel like you are losing out as they then take a big slice off you which makes it feel like the working is not worth it.....in reality the working is worth it cos of all the things it brings other than pure financial gain but while you have young children it is hard to justify going back esp if the monetary gain isn't going to dramatically change your life.